This was the best tasting, most prolific, most beautiful lettuce in my first salad garden. It is hard to find a lettuce that grows reliably in my climate (Zone 9) without bolting. This one is a real find. Very tasty, as well. I had more salads than could be eaten from November until February.

This fancy buttery lettuce with ruffled burgundy-tinged leaves is a salad lover?s dream. 1985 All America Winner with a long harvest period. Red Sails lettuce grows mature leaves in just over six weeks and is very heat resistant. The soft buttery leaves will grow for quite some time in warm weather without getting bitter or bolting. A good choice for a colorful salad with only one variety! Try growing its deep burgundy to bronze leaves in containers for a beautiful edible ornamental. This packet plants? Five 8 foot rows or five successive plantings of 8 foot rows. When to start outside: RECOMMENDED. Early spring, 3 to 4 weeks before average last frost, and successive plantings thereafter every 3 weeks until 2 weeks before the first fall frost. (Skip very hot summers.) USDA zone 8 or warmer: sow in fall for winter harvest. When to start inside: 6 weeks before average last frost and in summer when soil temperatures are too warm outside to germinate lettuce seed."